Sad news: Winamp closing down shop forever on December 20th

RIP

Truely one of the early pioneers in the media playback field was a awesome tool for its time.

I guess this means the end of ShoutCast..? Damn, a double whammy.

There's always AIMP.

Wait......Hasn't AOL said this before???

Yes, but this time it seems more believable, imo.

Still using it to this day. :-(

Actually I'll probably continue to do so after they close up shop. So many esoteric formats I listen to only have good support via Winamp plugins.

What I'd mainly miss is the visualizations. Milkdrop/Milkdrop 2 makes anything on a rival player look amateurish.

Yeah, at least for audio, I have no plans on ever using anything else. Even players with arguably comparable features generally have nowhere near the quality and flexibility of the WinAMP UI.

As some have said RIP, used used you when you where a small baby and saw you grow ( in most ways)

They should at least release the code as open source :( , please sign this petition:

http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/a...en-source#share

RIP Winamp. You truly kicked the llama's a**

Winamp as open source is no a bad idea, maybe implementing Shoutcast too !?

I'm not certain ShoutCast is actually shutting down; I can't find anything online about it, anyway. Certainly, many people have paid for the service, after all. It's also still arguably one of the most successful net radio hubs extant.

Originally posted by nonoitall:

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Still using it to this day. :-(

Actually I'll probably continue to do so after they close up shop. So many esoteric formats I listen to only have good support via Winamp plugins.

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Get your programs & plugins while you still can!!

RIP to the only decent part of AOL. Stopped using it on PC years ago, but it still works well on Android (and VLC just isn't there yet on Android...I don't want to wait 10 minutes for indexing every time I open the app).

Too funny that M$ might pick it up? I bet it would be rolled in and messed up by putting it into windoze media player? Would probably be a piece of $#*#* ???

My Winamp play list is holding almost 600 hrs. Of non stop mix music (hits only). Hope this program goes open source.

Originally posted by SomeBozo:

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Originally posted by nonoitall:

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Still using it to this day. :-(

Actually I'll probably continue to do so after they close up shop. So many esoteric formats I listen to only have good support via Winamp plugins.

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How about VLC, the only thing i don't like with VLC is it's play list. Winamp and this is completely my personal preference which i think others might have, but Winamp's playlist/editor is the best playlist i've seen for any player out there...

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I must say this to all those overly sappy and sentimental fools.....especially those that solely relied upon a single player for GOD knows why................IT'S A MEDIA PLAYER FOR CRYING OUT LOUD. Find another solution and get over this.

Personally, I use Windows media player as it works flawlessly in every respect of use I put it to. I will miss Winamp though. It was a staple in my early/starting years of computing so I have much love and respect. Didn't know it was owned by AOL but that would explain their closing it down.

I used to use Winamp to access and hack backdoor radio station streams (in the infancy of radio streaming) to access the 128K streams that were oh so rare back in the day because bandwidth was only for the few so a bunch of radio stations only offered 64K to the general public but had backdoors.

Many alternative players don't support what WinAMP does, and still don't have many of the features WinAMP has had for years, all with less CPU and RAM load. The UI, in my opinion, is also much better than most other players.

Originally posted by Bozobub:

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What I'd mainly miss is the visualizations. Milkdrop/Milkdrop 2 makes anything on a rival player look amateurish.

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